If You Liked Boardwalk Empire, Watch These Next
Finished Boardwalk Empire (2010) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Boardwalk Empire, most of them are crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Peaky Blinders(2013)
8.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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2.Power(2014)
7.7CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.
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3.The Sopranos(1999)
8.7CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist…
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4.We Own This City(2022)
7.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
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5.Dope Thief(2025)
6.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Two lifelong friends in Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob small-time drug dealers. It's a perfect grift—until they choose the wrong mark and become targets of a massive narcotics enterprise.
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6.Seven Seconds(2018)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
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7.Godfather of Harlem(2019)
8.1DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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8.Bad Blood(2017)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
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9.City on a Hill(2019)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass…
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10.Power Book II: Ghost(2020)
8.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.
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11.Lucky(2026)
7.3DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, Lucky must fight for her life—and a way out.
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12.Animal Kingdom(2016)
7.8CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and…
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13.Sons of Anarchy(2008)
8.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates…
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14.Harlots(2017)
7.3DramaAlso drama
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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15.The Cleaning Lady(2022)
7.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.
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16.Magic City(2012)
6.8DramaAlso drama
Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond to ensure the success of his glitzy establishment.
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17.The Gold(2023)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m.
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18.BMF(2021)
8.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, who…
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19.Good Behavior(2016)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the job, launching her on a collision course with the killer, entangling…
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20.Power Book IV: Force(2022)
8.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.
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